An Air India flight sure for London crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad this morning, carrying 242 passengers and crew. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed close to a residential space of a neighborhood medical faculty in western India.

In line with The New York Occasions, Officers haven’t but confirmed the variety of survivors, however India’s well being minister reported that “many individuals” had died. The airline acknowledged that the passengers included 169 Indian nationals, 53 from Britain, seven from Portugal, and one from Canada.

Emergency response groups had been rapidly dispatched to the crash website, and authorities are at present investigating the reason for the crash.